Niobrara, Village Of, NE
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 15.1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Niobrara, Village Of at a glance
Niobrara, Village Of serves about 365 people through 222 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Knox County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3110709; phone on file: 402-857-3565. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 12.55 ppb from 2.55 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Niobrara, Village Of is 15.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 15.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 2.55 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.67 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.19 ppb |
Against other Nebraska systems
Of the 576 Nebraska systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.55 ppb; 7 are over 15 ppb right now and 29 have gone over at some point. Niobrara, Village Of's 15.1 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Nebraska and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Knox County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Niobrara, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Creighton, City Of | 1,154 | 1.95 ppb |
| Bloomfield, City Of | 1,025 | 3.87 ppb |
| Crofton, City Of | 754 | 2.62 ppb |
| Wausa, Village Of | 592 | 2.6 ppb |
| West Knox Rwd | 565 | 1.4 ppb |
| Verdigre, Village Of | 552 | 1 ppb |
| Wau Col Rws - West Side | 326 | 1.55 ppb |
| Winnetoon, Village Of | 75 | 5.82 ppb |
| Center, Village Of | 74 | 1.35 ppb |
| Verdel, Village Of | 30 | 1.25 ppb |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Niobrara, Village Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.